The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-02
News Of the Week.

dwellings, were QemOllSneu
| Edward Whelan, of Newburgh, New York
injured at the Buffalo hotel fire, is dead
making the number of victims Is.
The carpenters of Chicago are preparing tc
enforce their demand for s hours per day and
30 cents per hour on and April 4th.
Mrs. May Mary Manning died in Wakefield
Massachusetts, on Sunday, at the alleged age
of los years. She was born in Dublin, Ire
land.
A local option election was held on Mon.
day in Frederick county, Virginia, and it was
carried by the Prohibitionists by nearly BOO
majority.
A steam tug of 700 tons burthen is under
construction at Bangor, Me. 1t is claimed
that she will be the largest boat of her kind
in this country.
The dwelling of Matthew Massick, lat Ludlow.
vile, New York, was burned early Tuesday
morning, and Massick and three children
persisted in the flames.
There was hard frost, with ice, in the dis
tricts around Norfolk and Danville, Virginia,
ON Monday night. 1t is feared that much
damage has been done to early fruits and
vegetables.
The Sanderson Steel Works, in Geddes, a
suburb of Syracuse, New York, were destroy
ed by fire early Monday morning. The build
ings covered two acres of ground, and the loss
is estimated at 100000.
There was general and heavy snow and
wind storm throughout the Northwest on Sat
day night and Sunday. Trains on many rail-
roads were delayed, and in Des Moines the
streets were blocked by snow.
A fight took place between cowboys and
shepherds near Grants Station, Arizona, a
few days ago, in which one of the herders was
killed and three other herders and a cowboy
were wounded. One of the wounded has
since died.
A boy who was being elected from theatre,
in St. Louis, last Saturday, shouted "Fire!'
and precipitated a panic that might have re-
suited seriously had not officers and ushers
manned the doors and refused to let the peo-
pie out.
On Sunday morning Benjamin Mobbs was
found hanging dead in his room at Hazen,
Ark. Thieves strung him up to make him
tell where his money was concealed. On
learning where he kept it in their greed they
left the unfortunate man hanging until he was
dead.
Henry c. Butcher and F. Oliver, the pres
ident and the general manager of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company, arrived in Montgomery,
Ala, on Tuesday, and perfected arrangements
to locate there one of the eight new cotton
seed oil mills to be built in the South this
summer.
Within a few weeks three trains on the
Wisconsin Central Railroad have been thrown
from the track near Eau Claire by misplace
ment of the switch. Edward Bradley, aged
Is years, was arrested on Friday, on suspi-
cion of being the culprt. He is believed to
be insane,
A violent wind storm did much damage
around Wheeling, West Virginia, on Friday
morning of last week. AT different points FIVE
barns. saw mill and dwelling were demol-
ished; church was twisted at right angles to
its former position, and quantity of lumber
was scattered about.
At Railway, New Jersey, the murdered
body of a well dressed young woman was
found lying on one side of jefferson avenue
early on Saturday morning. There were evil
dences of terrible struggle and her throat
was cut, the jugular vein being severed, She
was about 26 years of age,
A freight train and coal train on the New
Jersey Central Railroad ran into each other
near Rockport on Saturday morning. Both
engines were smashed and twenty cars were
damaged, William Dunlap, fireman of the
coal train, was killed, and the three other
train men were severely injured.
The total estimated cost of the buildings
now being erected in Birmingham, Ala. is
two million three hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars. In addition to this buildings
are being erected in suburban, mining and
manufacturing enterprises, upon which over
one million dollars is contracted to be ex-
pended.
A committee appointed by the Supervisors
of La Sale county, Illinois, to investigate the
accounts of the ex-county officers, have re-
ported P. w. Stocksteger, ex-County Clerk,
short $22, 900; A. 7. Bartels, ex- Probate Clerk
short $1,000; S. w. Raymond, ex-County
Treasurer, short $25 200, and ex-Sheriff Mill
igan, short $4,000. '--s'a
According to telegram from Quebec, on
Tuesday, the snow blockade ON the Interco-
lonial Railway was unprecedented, and all
travel on the road was stopped. There was
also "a snow blockade on the Canadian Pacific
Railway. One train was 100 hours making
two miles, The snow was banked higher than
the telegraph poles.
Some geese at Cave Springs, Georgia, got
so drunk by eating spoiled brandy cherries
thrown into the back yard that the owner
thought they were dead and stripped them Of
their feathers. An hour or two later they
we're walking around the yard, and cold
snap setting in soon the owner had to bundle
them up in flannel to keep them from freez-
ing.
The receipts of wheat at New Orleans BY
the river route since September aggregate
100000 bushels, which is nearly all gain,
as the receipts for the corresponding period Of
1886 were only 10, 957 bushels. Two towboats
left St. Louis Monday last for New Orleans
with a load of 404. 900 bushels of wheat. To
have shipped this by rail would have required
at least 800 freight cars.
The ground on the Delaware and Hudson
Co.'S, mines, in Plains, near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
sank four feet during Sunday night. Much
damage was done to buildings, and there are.
indications that another and more serio o.
subsistence may occur within few d.sys.
There are cracks Is inches in width on the
surface of the ground, and the wells in the
vicinity have ceased to flow. =
The Navy Department was advised on Sat
urday by Naval Constructor Steele> Il, Ches.
ter, Penna., that the Chicago, the Asgest o.
the Roach cruisers, will be ready TO, 20, TO the
New York Navy Yard aboaa April 9Th
Three or four months time Will be required
after the Chicago reaches the. New York yard
to fit her out, and when thst is done she will
be sent out on triei trip
While Capt. A. N. Smith, was blowing his
held at Franklin, Texas. on Thursday, some
one fired load Of bnakshot in,o his back,
killing him Instantly The assassin then
empled another load of shot into the head oil
his victim, tearing. out his eyes and horribly
mutilatirg his, face. J. E. Fulton, q neigh
Dor, against whom Smith obtaiaeS ladgment
for small amount, has been arrested f1athe
crime.
An express, train on, the Fort Wayne Rail-
road was stoppedl at Leetonia, Ohio, last Fri
day morning, abont l o'clock, because of a
leak in the air-bEake hose. While the engi
neer, William Bealt, was examining the leak,
freight train crashed into the rear ofthe ex-
press, tefescoping the sleeper and a passen-
ger car. The engineer, Beall, was killed, and
eight other persons were injured, one, J. c.
Hazlett, fatally.
DR.. Edward McGlynn Occurred in the New
York Academy of Music Tuesday night, on
"The Cross of the New Crusade The
building was packed with his admirers, and
his reception was so enthusiastic that he was
moved to tears. During his speech he reit-
Grated his faith in the Henry George idea Of
land, and declared he would teach it at all
hazards, any ecclesiastical authority to the
contrary notwithstanding.
During the trial of case at Newbery,